After long thinking and researching I had come to the conclusion that our societies are civilized and therefore people are happier depending on how we treat the worst among us – those in prisons; how we treat minorities and marginalized groups. I was so proud of that conclusion, but then I was reading Fyodor Dostoevsky and suddenly it was there. He wrote it in 19th century, more than 100 years ago.
‘’The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons,” Fyodor Dostoevsky.
I left with a thought by André Gide, a French author, that goes along those lines:
“Everything to be said has already been said. But since nobody was listening, it has to be said all over again”